Scientists have found a way to beam lifelike images in almost real-time.
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| Image Projected onto a piece of perspex. |
They believe the breakthrough may one day allow people to communicate in the same way Princess Leia recorded herself appealing for help in the fight against the Empire in Star Wars.
The technology is very much in its early days, but scientists think it could be the future of tele-conferencing and has potential applications in surgery, entertainment and engineering.
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The hologram is created by taking images at different angles and sending them over a computer network.
During the research, they were projected on to a transparent plastic panel and refreshed every few seconds.
While sending 3D images has been done before, they were far from lifelike because it took a long time for them to update – making realistic movement impossible.
Professor Nasser Peyghambarian, who leads the US team behind the research at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said: "Holographic telepresence means we can record a three-dimensional image in one location and show it in another location, in real time, anywhere in the world."
I think this is amazing news, only last week on the trip to glasgow, we were talking about how Sony had been experimenting with 3D technology with several screens to create a depth perception, but this is talking about an actual 3D moving image.
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